Customers who wandered into Istanbul's Piyalepaşa district market Thursday were met with a pleasant surprise— the items sold at the bazaar were offered free of charge after a local businessman bought-up all the stalls for the day.

Hurricane Irma has formed in the eastern Atlantic as a Category 2 storm, just days after the first major hurricane of the season, Harvey, unleashed massive rain and floods over Texas, U.S. officials said Thursday.

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to rescind an Obama-era policy that protects nearly 600,000 immigrants who entered the country illegally as children, but plans to let them stay until their work permits expire, a senior administration official said on Thursday.

Pentagon officials confirmed Wednesday the U.S. had been undercounting its force levels in Afghanistan.

Joint Staff Director Lt. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. and Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said there are 11,000 troops in Afghanistan, a figure that is 2,600 higher than previous acknowledgements.

The officials declined to give a similar assessment for Iraq and Syriaa where there are thousands more troops than publicly acknowledged, but White said the Pentagon is reviewing its public accounting.

"Each operational theater is different, and we have to consider different concerns," she told reporters.

McKenzie said the numbers for Iraq and Syria will be released soon.

The Afghanistan figure is higher in part due to the Pentagon's decision to count service members in the country on a temporary basis. The group was previously omitted by the past administration.

The announcement comes as the U.S. military reportedly prepares to send about 3,900 additional troops to the war-torn country in line with President Donald Trump's new policy.

No new troops have been deployed to the country, however, McKenzie said.

While families in Turkey still pick an animal to be slaughtered and donate to the poor as part of traditions surrounding the holiest of Muslim holidays, modernization is changing the ways they go about it

NATO said Wednesday it will send three experts to observe military exercises between Russia and Belarus next month but alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg wants the two countries to allow broader monitoring.

Contemporary artist CANAN has created an extraordinary realm for her upcoming exhibition at Arter Gallery titled ‘Behind Mount Qaf,' inspired by the mythological and supernatural beings of especially Iranian and Arabian cosmology

Some 70,000 people in Frankfurt will have to leave their homes this weekend in one of the biggest such evacuations in post-war Germany, police said Wednesday, after an unexploded World War-II bomb nicknamed "blockbuster" was uncovered.

Wıth around 3,000 Rohingya Muslims having fallen victim to violence in Myanmar during the last few days, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called on the world not to turn a deaf ear to the humanitarian crisis, assuring that Turkey would continue to raise awareness on the urgency of the issue at the U.N. general assembly on Sept. 18. Meanwhile, the Turkish Foreign Ministry also issued a statement to condemn the hostility targeting Rohingyans.

Tropical Storm Harvey has set a rainfall record for tropical cyclones for the continental United States, with 49.32 inches (125.3 cm) of rain observed at a location southeast of Houston, the National Weather Service said on Tuesday.